As part of UCF\u2019s second annual UCF Celebrates the Arts in April, the university\u2019s orchestra and choruses will team up with Orlando Shakespeare Theater to present a program in collaboration with the worldwide 400th anniversary observance of William Shakespeare\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
The free program, Patrick Doyle’s Music of Shakespeare, <\/em>will feature the music of composer and two-time Oscar nominee Doyle, who has served as the composer for Sir Kenneth Branagh\u2019s Shakespearean films, including Hamlet<\/em>, Much Ado About Nothing<\/em> and Henry V<\/em>.<\/p>\n The program will be presented Friday, April 15, at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts under the baton of conductor James Shearman. While the musicians perform the songs and underscores from Doyle\u2019s cinematic scores, actors from the Prague Shakespeare Company and Orlando Shakespeare Theater will perform scenes from the films.<\/p>\n Doyle, a classically trained composer, has composed more than 45 internationally renowned feature film scores including Indochine<\/em>, Sense and Sensibility<\/em>, Carlito’s Way<\/em>, Gosford Park<\/em>, A Little Princess<\/em>, Bridget Jones’s Diary<\/em>, Nanny McPhee<\/em> and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire<\/em>. He has also collaborated with a host of film directors including Robert Altman, Ang Lee, Brian de Palma, Alfonso Cuaron, Mike Newell and Regis Wagnier.<\/p>\n Shearman has gained worldwide recognition as a conductor and orchestrator of more than 60 feature film scores, from the Academy Award-winning score for Shakespeare in Love, Gosford Park, Brave, Thor <\/em>and Doyle\u2019s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. <\/em><\/p>\n Featured actors for the evening include Jessica Boone and Guy Roberts from Prague Shakespeare Company, as well as actors from the Orlando Shakespeare Theater and UCF. Doyle and his son, Patrick Neil Doyle, will narrate the event, telling the audience about the inspiration and creation of the music.<\/p>\n \u201cGuy Roberts and Jessica Boone from Prague Shakespeare Company are accomplished international artists who have a history of working with Patrick Doyle and we are thrilled to have them in Orlando,\u201d said Orlando Shakespeare Theater artistic director Jim Helsinger.<\/p>\n